Recently published Ornithological Works. 159 



This little-known tract was omitted in M. Bureau's volume 

 containing the miscellaneous papers of Desfontaines. It is 

 of special interest to students of Palsearctic ornithology, as 

 containing the first published desci"iptions of several well- 

 known species. Prof. Newton contributes a preface of great 

 interest. 



6. Elliot's Monograph of the Hornbills. 



[A Monograph of tlie Bucerotidae, or Family of tlie Hornbills. By 

 D. G. EUiot, r.R.S. &c. Parts vii. & viii. Small folio : 1880. Pub- 

 lished by the author.] 



We are glad to be able to announce the issue of two more 

 numbers of Mr. Elliot's Hornbills, and trust that this im- 

 portant work may now be shortly concluded. 



We may take this opportunity of calling Mr. Elliot's atten- 

 tion to the second specimen of Buceros subcylimh'icus now 

 living in the Zoological Society's Gardens^ which has re- 

 deemed the character of tlie species by growing a perfect tail. 



The following species are figured in the new parts : — 



Part VII. Pabt VIII. 



Hydrocorax mindanensis. Bucorvus cafer. 



Anthracoceros convexus. Cranorrhinus corrugatus. 



Anorrhinus galeritus. Bycanistes buccinator. 



Cranorrhinus leucocephalus. ' Anorrhinus tickelli. 



Bycanistes albotibialis. Khytidoceros narcondami. 



Tockus melanoleucus, Tockus camurus. 



7. Finsch on two Pacific Birds. 



[Ornithologische Notiz. Von Dr. Otto Finsch in Bremen. Verhaudl. 

 d. Vereins fiir naturw. Unterhaltung, Hamburg, iv. p. 176.] 



Dr. Einsch states that his Petrceca kleinschmidti = P. jni- 

 silla (Peale), and his Ptilotis xanthophrys = P. pruvocator, 

 Layard. 



8. Freke on Birds found in Europe and North America. 



[A Comparative Catalogue of Birds found in Europe and North 

 merica. By Percy Evans Freke. Proc. R. Dublin Soc. 1879.] 



A very useful paper, giving in parallel columns the names 



